PPP/C Member of Parliament Dr. Vindhya Persaud on Wednesday flayed the government’s proposed 2018 budget, calling it “uninspiring” due to a lack of effective programmes and policies to deal with issues that plague women and children in the country.
“Once again women have been sidelined in this budget. There is no mention of effective programmes to deal with many issues that plague women in our country. Countries around the world see that sidelining women is not good for sustainable economic development,” Persaud told the National Assembly, while stating that she did not notice anything in the budget to address the issue of domestic violence, which she said continues to plague women of the country.
Additionally, she explained that the current infrastructure in place to address the issues are “weak and not a programme or policy has been mentioned in this year’s budget speech.”
Persaud highlighted that